Blues

Blues is the name given to both musical form and genre of music created especially in the African-American community in the Deep South United States in the late 19th century, from the spiritual, work songs, field hollers, shouts, and rhythmically simple narrative ballads. The blues everywhere ... in the form of jazz, R & B, and rock n roll is characterized by progressive chords particular with bar blues twelve chord progressions are most common with blue notes, notes that for purposes of expressive sung or played in stages flat or bent (minor 3 for 3 large) in relation to the field of large scale.
Blues genre is based on the shape of the blues but has certain other characteristics such as lyrics, bass lines and instruments. Blues can be divided into several subgenres ranging from country to urban blues that is more or less popular during different periods of the 20th century. Best known are the Delta, Piedmont and Chicago blues styles. World War II marked the transition from acoustic to electric blues and progressive opening of blues music to a wider audience. In the 1960's and 1970's, a hybrid form called blues rock revolution.
The term "blues" refers to the "Devil Blues", which means the melancholy and sadness, the early use of the term in this sense is found in George Colman's' one-act play the Blue Devils (1798). Although the use of the phrase in African American music may be older, have been proven since 1912, when Hart Wand's' "Dallas Blues" became the first copyright blues composition. Lyrics phrase often used to describe a depressed mood.
Depart from the blues and spiritual music of praise that comes from the communities of former African slaves in the U.S.. The use of blue notes and the application of the pattern of call-and-response (in which two sentences spoken / sung by the two sentences consecutively and both can be regarded as an "answer" to the first sentence) in the music and lyrics of blues songs are evidence that its origin originate in West Africa. In the present era many Blues Lovers was born. They listen, learn, write, play, and make an album.
Blues music has a huge influence on American popular music and new West, as can be seen in the flow of ragtime, jazz, blues rock, "" electric blues, bluegrass, rhythm and blues, rock and roll, hip-hop, and country , "reggae", as well as conventional rock